JavaOne Latin America 2010 is a wrap - Oracle and Community!

Did
you know that this was the first JavaOne in South America ?Did
you know that half of the talks were presented by local community ?Did
you know that several members from the community were involved in paper
selection process ?

There is a unrelenting demand
for Java technology in this market. Talk about the passion, most of the
rooms were packed 10-15 minutes before the scheduled start time. Some
of the sessions had to be repeated because of
their popularity. The message from several folks was loud and
clear that a bigger venue is needed for the next year as the event is
expected to only grow next year. This feedback has already been
conveyed to the events tea

The overall logistics,
production crew, events team, security staff, and every body else
functioned like a great orchestra to deliver a great performance!

I
recorded a video talking to some of the key
community members who were involved in the call for papers. They gave
an extremely positive feedback on how Oracle involved the community for
the entire process, watch it yourself:

Here
are some of the comments from the video:

SOUJava
is very proud that Oracle gave country and the
community a chance to participate in JavaOne Brazil.

Despite
all
the suspicions, SOU Java is very glad that community participated in
the
talk selection process.

The community is feeling
that Oracle is
hugging the community.

Oracle is very receptive of
suggestions from
the community.

Oracle's move is very right and wise
one and the
message is clear after call for papers, keynote, and content.

The
community needs that kind of support [provided by Oracle] so we can do
our best.

JavaOne
is about whole ecosystem, not about one company and a few. Allowing
local developers to show their projects makes JavaOne Brazil a real
JavaOne.

We from the JUG community are very very
happy that
Oracle is listening to our requests.

I had
a lot of fun, found several new GlassFish deployments, gave 3
presentations, 1 hands-on lab, 2 keynote demos, 1 impromptu discussion
on Java-based Web Frameworks, 1 MySQL community event, and met/talked
to a ton of passionate developers. Overall the presentations were well
delivered and got supporting tweets/comments from attendees: